On Tuesday Oct 1, 6:30pm (London time) Chris Knight and Camilla Power will be speaking LIVE @UCLAnthropology Dept, 2nd Floor, Daryll Forde Seminar Room (please get there on time before doors close!). You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
The first Word was spoken by a woman. It was ‘No’. Acted out in sounds and gestures and exploding into a chorus of laughter, it was a signal to the male sex that their behaviour needed to stop. Chris and Camilla will explain how menstrual bleeding was constructed as the world’s earliest taboo and how blood-red ochre came to symbolize ritual potency as our species emerged.